Johannes Gutenberg

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Postcard from Germany    1900

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Official Postcard from the Strasbourg Johannesfeier - 1900

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Gotha     Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention of Printing Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust Silver 1740

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Medal of Johannes Gutenberg   Warsaw 1996




Obverse: Bust of the inventor of printing Johannes Gutenberg in 3/4; on both sides the coats of arms of the cities, below on the left: MCDXLVIII, on the right: MCDLXXIII. At the top and bottom the inscription: JOHN GUTENBERG AROUND 1397 – 1400 – 1468 INVENTOR OF PRINTING IN MAINZ

MCDXLVIII = 1448               MCDLXXIII = 1473

Reverse: In the centre - a globe and a set square and two coats of arms of cities with St. Christopher and a mermaid. At the top, in a semicircle in two lines: REISSUE OF MASTERPIECES OF POLISH SCIENCE / PUBLISHING HOUSE, at the bottom: GUTENBERG-PRINT / TADEUSZ RADJUSZ. WARSAW

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Medal 1900  500th birthday of Gutenberg.
 


Obverse: Open book with clasps and the inscription Biblia JG 1455
Reverse: 9 lines of writing with the names and dates of the book printing houses established in Saxony.

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Gutenberg  Reich Exhibition Leipzig  1940

An exhibition was planned for 1940 to celebrate the invention of printing. The event was to take place in Leipzig, a centre of book production and the Reich's "fair city" (Reichsmessestadt). The exhibition was planned as a large-scale international event, whose aim was not only to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Johannes Gutenberg's invention but also to propagate the achievements of National Socialist Germany. The exhibition, as its organisers planned it, never took place. Instead, a memorial festivity for Gutenberg on a much smaller scale was carried out in Leipzig in 1940.

This medal was cast c.1937 for this exhibition   

See post 104 on page 7

Blackened iron cast medal 1940 by the Lauchhammerwerke. Commemorating the Gutenberg Imperial Exhibition in Leipzig, marking the 500th anniversary of the invention of the printing press.
Bust to the left
Inscription above an open book with the Leipzig coat of arms and the imperial eagle with swastika.

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GERMANY. Medal commemorating the Statue of Gutenberg  1837.

Obverse: Facing statue of Johannes Gutenberg

Reverse: Gutenberg seated left at table, with Faust standing to right, explaining the art of book printing.

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JOHANNES GUTENBERG - DIE GRÖSSTEN DEUTSCHEN (THE GREATEST GERMAN)   Medal from 2018

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Johannes Gutenberg Medal     c.1900